Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Mill Terrace
Esclusham, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 December 1995
- Locality
- Bersham
- Community
- Esclusham
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.03552, -3.03539
- Cadw reference
- 16550
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Adjacent to Mill Bridge at the western end of Bersham Village.
History
A group of 3 estate cottages, built in 1859 to designs of John Gibson, architect to the Plas Power Estate.
Exterior
Simplified Cottage Orne style. Random squared rubble, slate roofs with red tile cresting and axial stacks to front and rear. 3 cottages in a symmetrical composition with advanced outer gables. Nos 4 and 6 are entered from the sides, while the door to No 5 (plank door with strap hinges) is to the right of the narrow central bay. 3-light mullioned and transomed window to the left of this doorway and a single light transomed window in gabled dormer above it. The outer gables, roofed separately from the main ridge line, each have 2-light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor and single light transomed window above. All windows have latticed glazing. Gable returns have doorways with heavy stone architraves and lean-to canopy porches. Similar windows alongside. Gables throughout have scalloped barge boards.
Reason for designation
Part of a group with Nos 2-3, Mill Terrace.
A well detailed composition, retaining its original character. The cottages are of particular interest for their association with the Plas Power Estate.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Mill TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Mill TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Mill TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Mill TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.